N. Coleridge.
25July Dies in Highgate.

FURTHER READING

Collected Works and Prose

The standard version of STC’s works, still in progress, is the Collected Works, general editor Kathleen Coburn, published for the Bollingen Foundation by Princeton University Press from 1969. Bollingen and Princeton are also the publishers of the Notebooks, edited by Coburn (four double volumes, text and notes, have so far been published), and of the recently published Poetical Works, edited by J. C. C. Mays (Part I, Poems, Reading Text; Part II, Poems, Variorum; Part III, Plays, edited with Joyce Crick, 2002). For prose works not yet available in this series, the seven-volume Complete Works edited by W. G. T. Shedd, 1853 (reprinted 1871, 1875, 1884) may be consulted. Useful collections of STC’s prose include Biographia Literaria, edited by John Shawcross, Oxford University Press, 1907 (the second volume includes some of STC’s essays on aesthetic theory); Coleridge’s Shakespearean Criticism, edited by T. M. Raysor, 1930, revised edition, London, Everyman’s Library, 1960; Coleridge’s Miscellaneous Criticism, edited by Raysor, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1936; and Inquiring Spirit: A New Presentation of Coleridge from his Published and Unpublished Prose Writings, edited by Kathleen Coburn, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951, revised edition, University of Toronto Press, 1979. The standard edition of STC’s letters is the Collected Letters, edited by Earl Leslie Griggs, six volumes, Oxford University Press, 1956–71.

Editions of the Poems

Editions of STC’s poems published in his lifetime and later in the nineteenth century are listed at the beginning of the Notes. The three most important subsequent editions prior to Mays’s edition of the Poetical Works are The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by James Dykes Campbell, London, Macmillan, 1893; The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, two volumes, Oxford University Press, 1912; and the Everyman Library edition of the Poems, edited by John Beer, London, 1963; revised edition 1993. The best selected editions are Selected Poetry and Prose, edited by Elisabeth Schneider, New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1951, reprinted 1971; Coleridge’s Verse: A Selection, edited by William Empson and David Pirie, London, Faber, 1972; and the Oxford Authors Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by H. J. Jackson, Oxford University Press, 1985. Very much worth consulting are the freshly edited texts of STC’s seven most widely read poems in Jack Stillinger’s Coleridge and Textual Instability, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Biographies

Campbell’s biographical introduction to the Poetical Works (1893) is still an important account; it was published separately in 1894 as Coleridge: A Narrative of the Events of His Life. Walter Jackson Bate’s Coleridge, Toronto, Macmillan, 1968, is the best modern critical biography. Of particular interest among the many more specialized biographical studies are Richard Holmes’s Coleridge: Early Visions, New York, Viking Penguin, 1989, and Nicholas Roe’s Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. See also Coleridge the Talker, edited by Richard W. Armour and Raymond F. Howes, 1940; revised edition, New York and London, Johnson Reprint, 1969.

Criticism

This is a selective list of twentieth-century critical books. Essays of particular critical or scholarly pertinence are mentioned in the Notes. For Coleridge’s contemporary and nineteenth-century reputation, see Coleridge: The Critical Heritage, edited by J. R. de J. Jackson, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970, reprinted 1991. The most useful bibliographies of Coleridge criticism and scholarship are those in volume 3 of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (covers work published before 1967), David Erdman’s bibliography The Romantic Movement published as an annual supplement to English Language Notes until 1980 and then as a separate volume by Garland Publishing, New York, and the section on Coleridge in The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism, edited by Frank Jordan, New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1985.